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sylvia, are you with us? can you hear us? i think sylvia lost her sound there so we'll come back out to her in just a second. if we can forward on to some of the other news we're getting out of that meeting, mario monti made a surprise appearance that we'll talk about as soon as silvia comes back. in particular, let's shift to asia and head to key elections. think in the most recent manufa worsening, meanwhile, opinion polls have been very consistent about which party is likely to become japan's next ruling party. kaori enjoji has more for this. >> japanese prime minister yoshi hikonoda is trying to keep his party in power just days before the election. it could pave the way for the return of the liberal democratic party of japan. >> japan is going to have another election due next year. and what abbe is perhaps going to do is to use the government machine as much as possible in order for the budget to be increased to sustain some of the public works because there is another critical juncture coming up because the japanese go
sylvia, are you with us? can you hear us? i think sylvia lost her sound there so we'll come back out to her in just a second. if we can forward on to some of the other news we're getting out of that meeting, mario monti made a surprise appearance that we'll talk about as soon as silvia comes back. in particular, let's shift to asia and head to key elections. think in the most recent manufa worsening, meanwhile, opinion polls have been very consistent about which party is likely to become...
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joining us now is david scoutville. david, first of all, how do you know the 1 billionth tourist is out there today and where might he or she arrive? >> it's impossible to tell where that personal is going to arrive. but we've calculated very precisely today is the day that ta 1 billionth tourist is going to cross an international border. as you said in your introduction, there's auto huge increase since travel started. only four years ago, that figure was 445 million. so that figure is growing quickly. >> one of the questions, though, become what are the tourism hot spots? are we seeing a shift to where people are going, how they're traveling? what is the outlook for 2013, in your view? >> 2012 will finish at a growth about 2.12%. as we go into 2013, it will be about the same sort of growth rate. most of the growth is coming in asia. europe is still by far the biggest inbound and outbound market. most of the future growth is coming out of china. it is a market which is exploding. i think in 2010, they had 58 million pe
joining us now is david scoutville. david, first of all, how do you know the 1 billionth tourist is out there today and where might he or she arrive? >> it's impossible to tell where that personal is going to arrive. but we've calculated very precisely today is the day that ta 1 billionth tourist is going to cross an international border. as you said in your introduction, there's auto huge increase since travel started. only four years ago, that figure was 445 million. so that figure is...
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for us, it's innovation. at a time when the squeeze are on, innovation is sometimes on the back burner because price becomes the most important thing. maybe i don't get the best product available in the market but i get a product that does the job and it's cheaper. if it's becoming a little more tense, that may be in one or two markets the dominating factor. i have to deal with that. so for us it means more agile, faster reaction, reducing costs and dealing with the balance sheet. >> some businesses are now controlled by asian companies like the pc manufacturing. do you think it's the fate of the telecom equipmentmaker? >> i don't agree with that for the first reason that a lot of this is transforming. you picked up the phone to talk. today, you pick up a tablet to do many different things. you get a mixture of the telecom world. so that environment is so inf x influxed, there are so many different forces coming through to the forefront that you need not just to have your technology side, you need to have you
for us, it's innovation. at a time when the squeeze are on, innovation is sometimes on the back burner because price becomes the most important thing. maybe i don't get the best product available in the market but i get a product that does the job and it's cheaper. if it's becoming a little more tense, that may be in one or two markets the dominating factor. i have to deal with that. so for us it means more agile, faster reaction, reducing costs and dealing with the balance sheet. >> some...
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joining us is u.s. leader of m&a practice at pricewaterhouse which is forecasting sustaineded activity. what impact is the fiscal cliff having? >> it's impacting the level of activity in the final quarter of 2012. we are seeing acceleration. if we look at volume and values of deals in october and november, we popped up 10%, 15% above the average after the previous nine months. so i think if you were contemplating the deal between september of this year and march of next, the likelihood is you'll try to pull it forward to try to take advantage of the capital gains tax certainlily. >> so if you're rushing through this year, there will be a lull in the first quarter. >> yeah. i agree. i think we will potentially see a lull in the first quarter. but on the assumption that we do get past the fiscal cliff with successful resolution, which i think we're all optimistic we will, i think fundamentals are strong. we have corporate balance sheets still strong. we have private equity with a lot of available cash. an
joining us is u.s. leader of m&a practice at pricewaterhouse which is forecasting sustaineded activity. what impact is the fiscal cliff having? >> it's impacting the level of activity in the final quarter of 2012. we are seeing acceleration. if we look at volume and values of deals in october and november, we popped up 10%, 15% above the average after the previous nine months. so i think if you were contemplating the deal between september of this year and march of next, the...
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joining us is portfolio manager at anc capital. arthur, thanks for joining us. how important are heathrow slots if you want to compete? >> i think they're important to have a presence there and when you look at what delta is doing specifically, they're increasing their scope. and when you look at the flights and the offerings that delta has, it's week relative to american b.a. so what delta wants to do, it smells an opportunity here to give an offer to go customers because this is a network business and move those customers that maybe are going on ba, aa, or united out of newark on o. to the delta large system. and that's the opportunity it has. and conversely people here that want to come to the states or the big network delta has to get people to points beyond i think for virgin to be part of a transaction here, you get the united states market which is a large market. >> you have sink more airlines which would sell, sky team with delta and sort of ba, aa team, as well, how are those three global shaping up, who is winning? >> well, i'm partial to sky team. sk
joining us is portfolio manager at anc capital. arthur, thanks for joining us. how important are heathrow slots if you want to compete? >> i think they're important to have a presence there and when you look at what delta is doing specifically, they're increasing their scope. and when you look at the flights and the offerings that delta has, it's week relative to american b.a. so what delta wants to do, it smells an opportunity here to give an offer to go customers because this is a...